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Blu-ray Disc Gains Gaming Support

Electronic Arts, Vivendi Universal Games choose a side in the battle of next-gen DVD formats.

Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
Thursday, January 06, 2005

LAS VEGAS -- Electronic Arts and Vivendi Universal Games, both major game software makers, are due to announce their support for the Blu-ray Disc optical disc format.

The two companies are scheduled to make the announcement on Thursday afternoon at the International Consumer Electronics Show here, according to Blu-ray Disc Association member-company sources who did not wish to be named.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119195,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

 

[bitwise]

unless its exclusive support..

 

[Elios83]

Of course this is only for PC games isn't it?

 

[Joe]

there's no details, no specifics, its not confirmed, and has no real source.

if its true, and its exclusive support for blu-ray, thats a huge blow to hddvd.

 

[Arluss]

It's still strange to me that just after DVD becomes common-place in homes we're ready to jump onto the next generation DVD format.

 

[kaching]

Game makers announcing support for a physical media format doesn't really mean much. If Xbox2 is HDDVD and PS3 is BRD, its not like this means they won't be making games for Xbox2...

 

[sonycowboy]

Of course this is only for PC games isn't it?

Yep.

1) This only applies to PC games. For consoles they'll use whatever the hardware requires regardless of HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray

2) For PC's, DVD's will continue to be used for a LONG time, so they'd just add more DVD's. Hell, there are still games on CD, of course.

3) Publishers almost certainly won't publish on 3 seperate formats, (DVD, Blu-Ray, & HD-DVD). It's a matter of trying to publish all those skus and take a chance on that many seperate formats with respect to inventory. It just won't happen unless they have absolutely no choice.

 

[Ghost]

Yep.

1) This only applies to PC games. For consoles they'll use whatever the hardware requires regardless of HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray

2) For PC's, DVD's will continue to be used for a LONG time, so they'd just add more DVD's. Hell, there are still games on CD, of course.

3) Publishers almost certainly won't publish on 3 seperate formats, (DVD, Blu-Ray, & HD-DVD). It's a matter of trying to publish all those skus and take a chance on that many seperate formats with respect to inventory. It just won't happen unless they have absolutely no choice.

I was gonna say, surely they arent gonna move any quicker to blu-ray than they have done to DVD.